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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-05
..rIRED OUT"

.Just tired out. the neighbor said
Turning from the squalid bed
Where the weary woman lay.
Painting LIES last hours away.
Save that sound of sobbing breath,
All was still. as coming death;
For the frightened children covered
Where, with heavy brows tina. lowered,
Meath the long enduring strain,
The mute husband bore his pain.
Just tired out-far down below
Waves were fretting on the flow;
And the full recurrent roar
Echoed upward from the shore;
Fainter grew the pulses beat
As the worn hands plucKed the sheet,
And the death-damps gathered. where
Ruffied all the tangled hair.
Said the watcher at her side,
@She is waiting for the tide
When the waves had ebbed anew
The tired life was over too;
Gone from want and care and i'll,
Very peacefully ard still.
After all she bore and wept,
Hard-worked wife and mother slept;
Very fair che looked, and meek,
Long dark lashes swept her cheek,
Worn hands crossed upon her breast,
For the weary was at rest.
1I the YeGr Round.
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TOO PronstscMo,as Letter. flirting.

Ahabit very common with number
of our thoughtless young ladies who dc
a great many things quietly which they
would not like to have known of at
home-a habit deserving of the strong.
est condemnation-is that of promiscu.
GUS correspondence with gentleman,
whether the gentleman be married OF
single. The young ladies who find
pleasure in this habit use their pens on
any pretext that turns up, and some
times on no pretext at all. We are not
really sure that this does not come less
under the head of an undesirable habit
than sin; for there is an indelicacy
about it quite amounting to immodesty,
of which no girl who respects herself
or who desires the respects of other will
be guilty.
These young letter-writers, however,
generally get fit reward for their
thoughtlessness or their culpability. If
their correspondent is man of system
attic habits, their letters are docketed
and tickc3ed, and his clerks have as
much of a laugh over them as they
wish; and if he is not systematic man
then those letters are at. the mercy of
any and every one who chooses to
waste time in reading them. If their
correspondent is a married man, then
his possession of their letters, even of
the most trivial kind, places the writer's
at disadvantage. Sooner or later the
letters fall into the handg If his wife,
who reads the folly or the wickedness
with clear eyes and holds the writer
not only in contempt, but in her power.
No young girl can be sure that her cor
respondent is not merely amusing him.
self with her; and it is often the case
that her letters are unwelcome and
nuisance, and he does not check them
and does reply to them, not from In
terast in her, but merely manly chiv-
airy. When the writer has recovered
AOA ACA AOAAy VI AOA6OVs0A 0OOuS ACA
idleness, there is the letter, ready to
rise, like an awful betraying ghost,
after she herself has possibly under
gone change, that will make her face
burn, branded with shame, should the
letter ever chance to confront her, or
perhaps even the memory of it Her
motive may have been all innocence at
the time, but it is left forever under
doubt; and in fact, except in the bald
est business affair, there can be no ex-
cuse, and therefore no innocence, in
the matter of young girls writing
letters to any man not her personal rel
alive or guardian; for about most of
these letters there is an unmaidenliness
almost amounting to indecency, and in
the end her correspondent himself
never thinks other than light of her on
account Of them-Harper,s Basay
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-05
Making q Lens.

On table in Alvan CIark,s mann.
factory, at Cambridge, was the finished
Pulkova lens, which weighed an
pounds, and consisted of two lenses
each thirty inches in diameter. Cen
orally these lenses are made to ac-
curately st, and are joined together
with Canada balsam, but in such large
glasses as the Pulkova and the Lick
they are fitted in q metal frame with
an adjustment, SO that they can be
made to approach each other, or other
wise. IT q single tense were used the
object inspected would be fringed with
various artificial colors and other de-
fects due to spherical alteration: but
by the simple artifice of using two
kinds of glass these defects are cured
to q great extent and nearly perfect
image is secured.
When the evening was sufficiently
advanced the great Pulkova glass was
placed in its temporary fitting in the
garden. There was no moon. and the
darkness was intense. The glass
was brought out on a
four-wheel hand truck, and lifted into
the tube by five men, and fixed by re-
volving it in the screw fitting. The
tube was forty-five feet long, and
weighed, with the attending fittings,
about seven tons. Two piles of brick
work supported the whole. There was
no clock-work movement, and the
toughest apparatus was employed; the
telescope was raised, and moved by q
guide rope, the motion of an equatorial
movement being initiated by using q
common windlass. As the motion of
the earth caused the object to pass
across the field of the telescope the OBJ
server gave the order follow" when
slight turn of the windlass kept the
object in view. Such were the rough
appliances used to test this $50,
lens.
The planets had all set, and I had to
be satisfied with view of fixed star,
which is an excellent object for testing
the optical properties of lens, but very
uninteresting otherwise, as the largest
telescope can make little impression on
fixed star; no disk can be seen, merely
q speck of light. The star selected
was small one, and barely visible as
a pale, minute object. On looking at
it with this magnificent instrument it's
wonderful light-gathering powers were
at once evident, for the star shone with
the luster and brilliancy of an electric
light It was an object which brought
out all the imperfections of the glass,
and to the eyes of Mr.. Clark and his
sons many were evident, and, it was
said, two months work was necessary
to correct them. During the trial the
lens was lowered and five men revolved
the glass in its fitting. On its being
placed in position again one of the
sons was about to make another test.
when the old man shouted: "Wait,
boys, lei. her COOL"
I was curious to know what this
could mean, and Alvan Clark explained
that the correction was so delicate that
the heat from the hands of the five
men holding the metal case of the OBJ
ject would change the correction, so it
had to "cool. "-Eccha7a0e.
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How Successful Exploring PAYS,

1t pays to be successful explorer.
An offer of $4,000 has been made to
Stanley to write book when he comes
home describing his latest travels.
Probably no English platform speaker
can make more money than Stanley in
the American lecture field. II. r.
Johnston, the explorer of Kilmanjaro
and the upper Congo, has just been APP
pointed, at % years of age, British
Consul at Zanzibar, where he gets a
big salary. Joseph Thomson has made
q competency out of his books, and has
been handsomely paid besides to hunt
for coal fields in the Sultan of Zinzi-
bars dominions and to study the pros
poets of trade for the Royal Niger
Company. Burton, the discoverer of
Lake Tanganyika. has made comfort
able fortune by the sale of his books.
Among Prejevalsky's brilliant honors
is his promotion to generalship in the
Russian army, and Greedy has been adj
vanced from lieutenant to brigadie-
general and manages the signal-service
bureau.-NeaU York Sun.
AN interesting literary novelty is
promised in Texas. Mr.. James B.
Goede, of Paris, in that State. has made
arrangements to publish all his poems
in volume of more than thousand
pages. with many illustrations It is
called Seems of Thought" and will
contain over forty thousand verses of
poetry on about one thousand different
subjects. with great number of humor-
GUS prose articles on his life, thoughts,
travels. and adventures as . reporter,
detective, and gentleman Of leisure.
Brother Goode has evidently discharged
. great variety Of functions in life. and
has thought ont IN enormous lot Of
golden gems
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A srR INGE LAKE IN AUsrR1A.

A STRINGE LAKE IN AUSTRIA.
A Zirknitz in the Austrian Alps there
is an intermittent lake that is a basil,
which at one season of the year is filled
with water, at another is dried up and
cultivated by the farmers of the neigh
borhood. The imperial forester,
William Putick, has just examined
the construction of that basin and found,
in one part of it, an immense cave called
Karlovea, which, when the surface of
the water in the basin has reached .
certain height, begins sucking up the
water until the basin is empty. This
cave leads to long series of under
ground lakes all connected with one an.
other by continuous current. Putick
navigated the first FIVE of them. I'M
mense fields of sand and gravel accumu-
late and alternately stop the current or
are carried off by it. The roof of the
caves in which this system of waters is
located at many places come down very
low. almost touching the water, and in
such places the moving gravel-beds
frequently close the passage and cause
the waters to rise in the higher cave.
Putuick, with three companions, was in
one of the lakes when the entrance was
suddenly closed by mass of rubbish
tumbling down from the roof. For
more than eight hours they worked as
hard as they conld until they succeeded
in opening passage by the side of the
main entrance, which was happily still
found dry, and they were enabled to
reach the surface unframed. But their
beat and tools were left behind and
will be recovered again after the water
shall have subsidized.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-05

The idea begins to prevails in Eu-
ropean armies. says the Boston Aduer-
tiser, that it is better to wound q man
in battle than to kill him, as more men
are taken out Of line to care for a
wounded man than for q dead one.
Hence opinion at present favors small
bore for the magazine rifles now being
introduced, and the average gauge
adopted is about three-tenths of an
inch only, instead of the half-inch
gauge hitherto in use in Europe and
in this country. An advantage of the
smaller bore is that the soldier can
carry more rounds of ammunition: His
gun elso can be made lighter. The
soldier, too, when consulted about the
matter, prefers being shot twice to be-
ing killed once. !.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-05

HEN-TRACK Sl8NArUREx
That most abominable Of all ahecta-
tions, the illegible signature, seems to
be gaining ground, and we wish to raise
our voice against il. A man of affairs
should have no affectations Of any sort.
but leave them to dudes and cranks and
those who mimic smartness or genuine
ability. The very worst affectation of
the catalogue is, however. this making
OF meaningless marks for ones sigma
ture, and, though miserable and nom
sensical in the extreme, it seems to be
on the increase.
To write handsomely is fine accom-
plishment: not to write legibly is . mis-
fortune that in these days is almost dis
graceful. Such advantages as every
one now enjoys were not to be had so
generally generation or two ago. and
both the writing and signatures Of the
old-school business men are apt to be
poor. That the illegible signature
habit had its origin in imitation of the
'untaught and unskilled is undoubted,
and while it is regretable in the former
it is nothing less than reprehensible in
the latter.
Certain banking and railroad jour
mails spread this intolerable nuisance
10y printing fac-simiies of illegible
signatures and intimating that they
are worth deciphering. Life is too
short and time too precious for such
effort, besides the affectation has gone
to such lengths of late, owing chiefly
to the fostering interests of those jour-
nails, that signatures are not modelled
on photographic rules at all, but are
only combination of scrawls. Thus
in the July number of the bankers
journal before us are three such sigma
lures, neither one of which is written
in English chirography or any other.
They are meaningless tumble of un-
calmly and arbitrary marks that do not
rise to the level of Indian hieroglyphics.
In no case do they give any Indication
of the writer's name when the name is
unknown.
Such affectations will, as matter of
human nature, surely stamp the writer
as cheap man, nine times out of ten,
and he will have other affectations and
senseless frivolities which he practices
at the expense of time and patience in
people of brains, common sense, and
business methods. Such signatures
are quite as readily counterfeited as
legible writing marked with ones indi-
vidual STYLE. The United States
treasury notes set fine example in the
clear and legible signature of Register
Rosecrans and the late Treasurer Jor-
dan, which bankers everywhere should
emulate.
If every journalist who has lost valu-
able time in the unavoidable endeavor
to deciphee these hen-track signatures
would join in protest against the
spread of this abominable affectation,
it would be a public service of no
slight value. Boston Commercial Bull
letin-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-05

In the cities of Worcester and Fall
River, and the town of Somerset, Mass,
the Swedish population is rapidly be.
coming an important element The
immigrants are mostly young girls who
seek employment - house servantG
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-05

THE good that is done in . pleasant
way accomplishas most and i most
lasting. Good advice, given kindly. is
worth dozen reproofs accompanied by
scowlA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-05

a bridge builder ri Leavenworth IN
6fty tsst without sustaining ssrioue h
jariss
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LISTEN 70 both sides Of . question
before you decide
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-17

not a few were inclined to doubt the gen.
uineness of the dispatch until mail advices
confirmed the accuray of the te~legraphed
reports. Hanlan's defeats came like his
victOries-all in a bunch. Shortly after
this he was again outrowed by Beach. Re
turning to this country he made a match at
three miles with John Teemer. | was an
interested spectator of this event,
which occurred over the Pleasant Island
course near Troy. Hanlan was never in
the race from the start and allowed his
boat 10 upset at the turning point. Then
the cry was at once raised that Hanlan was
| PLAYED out and had seen his best days. But
this delusiOn he very Tudely dispelled the
following year by defeating Charles E.
Courtney with comparative ease, and after
ward making the best on record for
three miles, repeating the performance
when its accuracy was questioned. Then
came Teemer's loss of the American cham
piOnship to Gaudaur, followed by Beach's
defeat of both of them, as we'll as of Bu-
bear, the English champion.
This year will see at least two land in
all probability three single scull races of
great Importance. The two which are as
sured will both have Hanlan as one of the
contestants. The first event will he with
Gaudaur and will occur on Decoration
day. This betting is very close, almost
even money being laid, In the fall Beach,
the present. worlds champion, will again
cross bladee with Hanlan on the Nepean
river, Australia. If Hanlan should defeat
Gaudaur, and there are many who think
he will, this latter contest will excite great
er interest than anything that has
occurred in auqatic circles since
the fiascO with Courtney. Teemer,
who is generally conceded to be
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-17

fellow named Mcdonald, q fine worker
aud expert. Mcdonald did as he pleased,
and the scout found his pile getting smaller
and smaller as the game progressed. As
he lost he began To drink, and midnight
found him in q state of intense, but re.
pressed excitemcnt-a condition that made
him one of the most dangerous men in the
West. 1t was at this iuncture that Nc.
Donald, smart gambler as he was, made
his mistake. lie should have quit. How
ever, Wild Bills apparent GOODNESS de-
ceived him.
FINALLY, the scout seemed 10 get al
unusual hand, and began 10 bet high and
heavy. Mcdonald raised him back every
time, until the top Of the table was about
out Of sight. At last there was q call.
GIVE got three jacks said Mcdonald,
throwing down his hand.
"'l have an ace full on SKIES replied
Bill.
lace full on skies is good, said Nc
Donald, coolly turning over his oppo-
nent's cards, but | see only two aces and
a six
"'Ilerc is the other six! suddenly roar
ed Bill, whipping out q navy revolver, and
here'-dmwing a bowie knife-'is the one
spot"
THAT hands good said Mcdonald,
blandly rising. Take the pot"
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wELLSBURG.
Bad BOys-The COuncII-GeneraI News
Personal.

Bad BOys-The COuncII-General News
Personal.
Special Telegram 10 he Sunday Register.
WELISBrIG, W. Va, April l6.-Tht
Mayors Office was crowded last evening tC
hear the evidence on a general disturbance
that occurred in this borough on Thurs
day night. II seems that considerable bad
feeling among some OF the boys was devel,
oped over their cups, and at least two pairs
of black eyes and several cut and bruised
heads were the result.
The Freman's hall, at Barth's Hall last
night, was a successful affair.
The town Council will meet in special
session on next Wednesday evening to de-
clare the result of the late election and
close up the business Of the old Council.
There will he a contest over the election
for Council in the First ward between
Henry Emig, Democrat, and c. D. Hall,
Republican.
The tOpers n considerably exercised
over the prospect of going to Brilliant or
elsewhere for their drains after May LIST,
as the dry year in Wellsburg commences
on that day.
Evaa D. Hindman and George Hindman,
two stauneh Democrats of Golfers, were in
townto day.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Duvalfi is on the streets again
after several months illness.
Mrs. John S. Beall and son wyiie to-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-17
MOUSDSVILLE.

Special Tiegrum 10 he Sunday Register.
M~ouNDsvILLE, W. Va, April 10
County Court cOnyenes on Tuesday next.
Only u hundred and seven Of the
whisky indictments were sustained by the
Circuit Court before its close, and of seven.
teen indictments the fines were SO aud in
ninety cases $50 and Gusts, making a total
of 81, $40, of which $500 have been paid.
q: w. Atkinson leetured in Simpson NJ.
+. church an Tuesday evening.
houndsville Academy opened on Mon.
day with a good attendance and flattering
prospects for the future, with Prof. J. y.
Cassiday, principal and Miss Mile r.
Myers, assistant.
Mrs. I. K. Buchanan and Miss Bell. OF
Wellsburg, are guests at the residence OF
DIR. G. w. Bruce.
y. l.. Holiday is seriously i'll.
The following gentlemen were elected
for Vestrymen for Trinity Episcopal church
for B ensuing year. J. W. Gallaher, DIR.
G. W. Bruce, B. F. HOdgman, V. A. Waa-
yer, b. Curtis, c. r.. Oldham, J. B. Alex
ander and A. j. Martin.
Band OF Hope supper at Masonic Hall
last Friday evening Melted eight dollars.
Mr.. w. c. Beans, city editor Of the Reg
IsTER, was here on Monday and visited the
noted gas we'll.
Eugene johnson and Harry Bowers made
an Intellectual attempt to escape from Jail.
The social held in Masonic Hall for the
benefit OF the \. NJ. c. A. was a success.
Pickwick Club will meetat the residence
q Mrs. ]. L WhaTy, Friday evening.
Miss Grace Jones, Of DiIIie's Bottom. il
the guest Of friends here.
Mr.. Ned Hogan, fireman on the wrecked
construction train on the Ohio River road
Is at home suffering with asprained ankle.
The wind storm wa very severe here
but no serious damage resulting.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-17
GRAFTON.
Commissioners Refuse Lirense-A Boom Ia
Real Estate-personAl

Real Battle-Ground
GRAFTON, W.. Va, april l6.-The
Boon" struck this town about the lst OF
April, and after looking around concluded
that there was a good opening here for q
good healthy boom that was not afraid Of
work." and 30 II has settled down here 10
spend the summer and as q natural con .
seQuence real estate, the first thing q boom
generally tackles has advanced several
points. ! have il from n prominent builder
that more new houses will he put mp this
summer In Grafton than during any i've
years previous. There Ia n growing de-
maud for more and better tenement houses,
and capitalists who shall put their money
into such investments will not only reap q
handsome return for the outlay, bnt will
deserve, and receive the thanks Of those
whose limited means compels them Ia live
IN rented houses.
The action of our County Commissioners
in refusing 10 grant liquor license In
Grafton may be satisfactory 10 themselves
and their country constituents, hut that
portion Of the people who live within the
corporation, having submitted the question
10 a vote at the recent city election, and d
majority Of two 10 one, being for license,
do not Mt all relish having their wishes
ignored In such n summary manner by the
three gentlemen Of the County Court For
II years the no license policy has prevailed
In this county. The temperance element
claiming that the sentiment Of the people
was opposed 10 license which ! belive was
the case for several years, bat seeing all
efforts 10 prevent The sale Of wbiskey Ia the
county, particularly In Grafton, fail year
after year-the time Of our courts taken up
with the trial of these iDfIaciions OF The
law, and tho business carried on with
impunity by an irresponsible class Of per-t
sons who hocked here from other points
where the business was interrupted for the
time being. Many Temperance people
voted 10 grant license honestly believing
that IL would DO more effective than
absolute prohibition, by diminishing the
number Of places where wbiskey Ii sold,
and placing the liquor business In tho
hands Of responsible persons whom the law
could reach and punish for violations. The
town council therefore granted license sub
ject TO the approval Of the County Court,
but that body however turned q deaf e.r 10
the voice Of the representatives Of the pep
pie Of Grafton and kicked the petetitions for
license out Of court 70 TO speak. We hope
II may be for the hest but We doubt II.
A number Of Grafton people attended
the wedding OF Charles W. Walker at Fair
mont ON Thursday.
X. NJ. Hanshaw a popular and prosperous
merchant Of Burton spent a couple of DAYS
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-17

FURTHER reports from the storm-swept
region across the river show that the dam
age Is fully as great as at first reported.
Many are left in straitened circumstances,
and deserve to have Others, whom this
misfortune has not befallen, help bear
their burdens. This, many are doing
promptly and cheerfully, and there is still
room for more. It is q good sign to see all
the people going to work 50 readily to re-
pair the damage that has been done. 1t is
such 4 course that will make Martins
Ferry and St. Clairsyille soon again rise up
brighter than ever, like a PhosnIx rising
from its ashes.